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Instana run under a non-root after installation (Standard Edition)

Customer is expecting that all Instana processes should run under a non-root user after issuing stanctl up command. We were advice (by an Instana site reliability engineer) to do the following and if would solve the problem but it did not: copy /r...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 1 Functionality already exists

User with the permission of edit team to be able to assign User to the Team even if when they are not part of it

We want User with the permission of edit team to be able to assign User to the Team even if when they are not part of it.   The reason is while working in SAFe you have e.g. the role of the release train engineer above the Teams and this rol...
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / User Management 1 Future consideration

Custom Attributes on Roles

We would like to add a custom checkbox to Roles for our use? Our intent would be to reference that Boolean field in reporting and other automation rules.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Not under consideration

Need to fix Agent download process for air-gapped customers

This is related to support case TS018328082 The issue is with Standard Edition when working with air-gapped customers. The behavior was different with the Docker backend. But, with standard edition, here is what happens. The customers have access ...
10 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Private/secured fields. Role-based permissions to view hidden fields, modify protected fields

Private/public fields. Hide financial and personal secret data in fields/custom fields/comments. Role-based permissions to view hidden fields and modify protected fields
over 11 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Planned for future release

Ability to duplicate permissions for a Role (Roles and Permissions) or Entity assignments for a role (Roles and Assignments)

Settings for roles in these two areas - especially permissions - can be very time-consuming due to the (helpful) level of granularity. Often I want to create a new role that is very similar to an existing one with just a few differences. There is ...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / User Management 0 Future consideration

Add sizing to Instana dashboard

Dear colleagues, please consider adding sizing capabilities to Instana dashboards. When instana is running it has all the information to estimate current resource use and calculate how much storage required for current load, when critical storage ...
9 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Planned for future release

Direct access to Team entity

My question is more to see if there is a way to have a non admin user that is not associated with a team to be able to modify that team? Is there something that can be done with permissioning and granting access to certain entities that would allo...
over 2 years ago in Targetprocess / User Management 1 Future consideration

Allow for full data retention greater than 30 days

As per Instana documentation, any value greater than 7 is supported for data retention settings. However, we were notified that 30 days is the maximum supported value by IBM Support team. We usually tend to keep the APM metrics for longer duration...
6 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 0 Under review

Need improved prereq checking for Standard Edition

There are a number of common problems that we've seen with customer installs where better prereq checking could have prevented an installation failure. We would like to see the prereq checker improved to check for additional prereqs. The following...
3 months ago in Instana / Self Hosted 3 Future consideration